Audience Quote by Robert Brustein

The primary function of a theatre is not to please itself, or even to please its audience. It is to serve talent.

— Robert Brustein

Theatre has to be theatrical. It has to draw attention to itself, like poetry.

— Tony Harrison

Theater is the most enriching and thrilling thing to do as an actor. It trumps movies and all that other stuff. People say, 'You…

— Paul Rudd

In theatre, the main objective is to make the art happy, not the audience!

— Mehmet Murat Ildan

Don't expect the theatre to satisfy the habits of its audience, but to change them.

— Bertolt Brecht

In theater, you just are who you are, and everyone loves you for it.

— Lachlan Watson

I'm passionate about music, and I feel that theatre has an extraordinarily musical ability in the way it operates on the audience.

— Simon McBurney

The theater is a communal experience, and whatever the emotional connection between an audience member and the actors onstage, it ripples through the whole…

— Colin Callender

Unlike films, theatre allows you to experiment as an actor, which is fulfilling.

— Paresh Rawal

Theater is like boxing - having the audience ringside. It's instant gratification. Or horrification.

— Sylvester Stallone

Neither should the theater in our country be regarded as a luxury. It is a necessity because in order to make democracy work the…

— Hallie Flanagan

One of the things I love about theater, one of the reasons I'll never give it up, is that it's fifty percent the audience's…

— William Petersen